Wall-eyed

properly means “withered-eyed.” Persons are
wall-eyed when the white is unusually large, and the sight defective;
hence Shakespeare has wall-eyed wrath, wall-eyed
slave, etc. When King John says, “My rage was
blind, ” he virtually says his “wrath was
wall-eyed.” (Saxon, hwelan, to wither. The
word is often written whall-eyed, or
whallied, from the verb
whally.)